Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understandThe other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of our generation's most influential thinkers, explains how to succeed in an uncertain environment.

Many things in life profit from stress, disorder, volatility, and upheaval, much as human bones strengthen when exposed to stress and tension, and rumors or riots grow when someone tries to suppress them.What Taleb has uncovered and called antifragile is that category of things that not only benefit from chaos but require it in order to exist and flourish.

Taleb demonstrated in The Black Swan that highly improbable and unpredictable events underpin practically everything in our world. In Antifragile, Taleb turns uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even important, and suggests that things be created in an antifragile manner.

Additionally, the antifragile is safe against unfavorable occurrences and immune to prediction errors. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we term efficient not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social programs benefit the powerful while harming the powerless? Why should you start writing your resignation letter before you even start working? How did the Titanic's sinking save lives? The book covers a wide range of topics, including trial and error innovation, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. Throughout, in addition to Fat Tony of Brooklyn's street knowledge, old wisdom voices and recipes from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources are heard loud and clear.

Antifragile is a strategy for surviving in a world ruled by Black Swans.

Taleb's message is revolutionary: only the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it. Erudite, funny, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: only the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.

Praise for Antifragile

Ambitious and thought-provoking highly entertaining--The Economist

A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error It may just change our lives--Newsweek

SKU	CIN0812979680G
ISBN 13	9780812979688
ISBN 10	0812979680
Title	Antifragile
Author	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Series	Incerto
Condition	Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2014-01-28
Number of pages	544
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